Alpha Packaging, a leading manufacturer of plastic bottles and jars for the nutritional supplement, pharmaceutical and personal care industries, announced Gary Seeman and Ed Schaffer have joined its team as General Manager and Operations Manager, respectively, of Alpha's new plant in Salt Lake City.

Seeman comes to Alpha with 15 years experience in the plastics industry, including roles in finance, accounting, budgeting and sales forecasting for rigid packaging manufacturers. Seeman has been working closely with Alpha for over two years, involved with finance and accounting for Alpha's Brooklyn plant. "The timing couldn't be better for Alpha's expansion into the western United States," Seeman says.

Schaffer has 24 years in the plastics industry, including experience with high-density polyethylene (HDPE), low-density polyethylene (LDPE) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) molding operations. He most recently served as Operations Manager of two PET manufacturing plants in the Northeast and Southeast. "It's an exciting opportunity to be involved with a new plant from the ground up," Schaffer says, "especially a company so committed to bringing new products and technologies to market on a regular basis."

The new plant will give Alpha an additional 80,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space to serve customers in western North America. Alpha plans to be in production by July 15, 2004, and will produce both stock and custom HDPE and PET packaging at the new plant.

In addition to manufacturing, Alpha Packaging has tool-making capabilities, from unit body cavity molds to complete high-cavity production tooling, and offers in-house design on CAD/CAM systems.